AMS2 - User Livery Overrides

can someone tell me step by step how to make a preview image in gimp of the pictures i took in the menu. I made some carskins but don't understand how to make preview image in gimp

 

i do not work with gimp.
But learn how to create and work with alpha channels.
You can import one of the preview images other people made and analyse

Then cut out the car of your screenshot and append an alpha channel for visibility.
Then export as dds with alpha.

 

Thanks mr wolfgang it sounds like a german name, I try it tomorrow

 

sounds german, but I am from Austria

 

Like Rindt and Lauda!

 

Like Rindt and Lauda! Specialy Rindt

 

Blind luck?

 

following the OP instructions is pretty weird, the xml file says you need to save a DDS file at 4096x4096 but provided template for IE the McLaren 720s GT3 is 4096x6144...so what's wrong?? and which DDs tool should we use to export liveries? using the nvidia tool and exporting in DXT1 i have a white car in the showroom

 

You can change the template's size to 4096x4096, save it as a new file/layer and then work on/with it. No problem, have done so with all my liveries.
You also can leave it in 4096x6144 I guess, as I have liveries from certain modders installed in this size and they work either.

I save the files as "DXT1 RGB 4 bpp | no alpha" in Photoshop.

 

Hi, I was looking for the Lotus 49c template (Formula Vintage gen 2) but it seems the link is missing from the list in the first post. Can somebody help?

 

there are templates in 4kx4k and 4kx6k. This are undistorted.
i had never problems to use undistorted dds's, maybe that need more texture memory and could slow down GPU's with lower memory.
The original liveries in AMS2 are all 4kx4k, if originally 4kx6k, that are scaled down before exported as dds.
But i suggest always to work in original template size, as working with Pshop or Gimp is always undistorted.
@deadly Working on templates that are scaled to 4kx4k is nonsens, because you would have to scale every asset before importing. Proportions of width to hight must fit to the original, maybe you wondered why there are unproportional scaled logos on your skin

 

Here New Update: Custom AI for all CART Cars (F-USA gen2) and NewMan Haas and Team Kool Green. The driver performance still needs to be worked on, if someone wants to do this they are welcome to do so.
Works without my skins!!!
Unfortunately, there are no Penske so the two yellow LOLA are the Penske team. You can see on the pictures how I have divided it. We don't get all car skins from 1998 but at least the most important ones.
and a question to all who should I substitute for Tony Kanaan?

 

I do not have unproportional scaled logos on my skins.

 

if you are scale from 4kx6k to 4kx4k and then work on that, you must scale all assets and fonts too.
If you do it just b4 exporting to dds, everything is ok

 

Amazing and pretty fast!!
Are you are going to paint the other cars, too? Just asking, I do not want to demand it.

 

I make more depending on how I have time!
I have uploaded a new version it is adapted to the new version! (above in the other post)

 

Skin-Pack version 0.2 + Team Penske HERE on RACEDEPARTMENT

 

Download 10 CART Skins
Here

 

10 skins two days after release! You're a machine!!

 

Would it be too much to ask for the templates of the cars to be made available as soon as they are released without having to beg them to be made available? There are cars that have been released for a considerable time and so far we don't have the templates.